Bay Area and online, September 28 to October 4, 2026

AI events this week

AI events for September 28 to October 4, 2026, checked against each organizer's page, with dates, prices and registration links.

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Monday, September 28

Startup Speedrun Hackathon

Free, apply · September 28, 2026, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. PDT · San Francisco

Cloudflare, 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco.

Brainbase Labs hosts a day of building agent-powered startups. The organizer lists free admission; host approval required. Bring a laptop.

AI Agents for Data Teams: A Practical Mini-Hackathon

Free, register · September 28, 2026, 5–8 p.m. PDT · Menlo Park

Silicon Valley AI Hub, 135 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park.

Bay Area Snowflake User Group helps teams build useful data agents. The organizer lists free admission. Bring a laptop and shareable sample data.

Tuesday, September 29

Are Your Marketing Graduates AI-Ready?

Online, register · September 29, 2026, 8–9 a.m. PDT / 10–11 a.m. CDT · Online

Online. Price not stated on the organizer page.

AMA and Digital Marketing Institute discuss AI skills in marketing education. Useful for educators updating courses and teams developing training.

One AI Academy: Understanding Time to Separation

Online, register · September 29, 2026, 9 a.m. PDT / noon EDT; end time not published · Online

Online. Price not stated on the organizer page.

One Model explains employee turnover timing models. A focused session for people analytics teams examining when employees may leave.

Collaborative Agent Hackathon @ Stanford

Free, register · September 29, 2026, 9:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m. PDT · Stanford

W450 Simonyi Center, 389 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford.

Flower Labs hosts collaborative-agent building. The organizer lists free admission, open beyond Stanford. Bring a laptop; teams can form onsite.

AI With Guardrails

Online, register · September 29, 2026, 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT; end time not published · Online

Online, Zoom. Price not stated on the organizer page.

Zeroed-In explores checking AI outputs in finance and accounting. Useful for teams that need reliable results and reviewable work.

Trust and Transparency in Human-AI Teams

Online, register · September 29, 2026, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. PDT / 2–3:30 p.m. EDT · Online

Online. Price not stated on the organizer page.

The National Academies explores trust and transparency when people work with AI. A research perspective on designing systems people can assess.

New Research on How AI Agents Act, Access, and Operate at Runtime

Online, register · September 29, 2026, 11 a.m. PDT / 2 p.m. EDT; end time not published · Online

Online. Price not stated on the organizer page.

Britive and SACR discuss agent access and runtime behavior. Useful for security teams deciding what agents should be allowed to do.

CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026

Ticketed · September 29–October 1, 2026; see organizer agenda for session times · San Francisco

Moscone South, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco.

CoreWeave brings AI infrastructure builders together. The organizer lists a $899 standard pass; restricted complimentary passes are not general admission.

Fix My Agent: Make Your Agent Production-Ready

Free, apply · September 29, 2026, 6–9 p.m. PDT · San Francisco

San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.

AI Valley, PostHog and GMI Cloud host hands-on agent troubleshooting. The organizer lists free admission, subject to approval. Bring a project to improve.

Wednesday, September 30

The AI Conference — Main Conference

Ticketed · September 30–October 1, 2026; check organizer agenda for session times · San Francisco

Pier 48, San Francisco.

The AI Conference covers engineering, research and deployment. Main-conference tickets are paid; check pricing. The sold-out Day ZERO workshop is excluded.

Runway AI Summit

Ticketed · September 30, 2026, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. PDT · San Francisco

The Masonic, San Francisco.

Runway brings creative and AI practitioners together. The organizer lists a $350 in-person ticket. Explore how AI is changing creative production.

NVIDIA AI for Science: Earth-2 Climate Session

Online, register · September 30, 2026, 9–10 a.m. PDT / noon–1 p.m. EDT · Online

Online. Select the September 30 North America session. Price not stated.

NVIDIA explores AI for weather and climate with Earth-2. A technical session for researchers and developers working with scientific models.

Synopsys PrimeTime Nexus

Register · September 30, 2026, noon–5 p.m. PDT · Sunnyvale

Synopsys Building 1, 800 North Mary Avenue, Sunnyvale. Price not stated.

Synopsys covers chip timing signoff, including AI-driven methods. A specialist event for semiconductor engineers rather than a general introduction to AI.

Flower AI Day: Collaborative Superintelligence

Free, register · September 30, 2026; check-in 1 p.m., keynote 1:30 p.m. PDT; evening reception follows · San Francisco

The Pearl, 601 19th Street, San Francisco.

Flower Labs explores open models, private AI and cooperating agents. The organizer lists free admission; register for talks, demonstrations and discussion.

Bay Area Frontier Research Club: Recursive Self-Improvement

Free, apply · September 30, 2026, 5:30–8:30 p.m. PDT · San Francisco

San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.

Frontier Syndicate hosts a research-paper discussion on self-improving AI. The organizer lists free admission, subject to approval. Best for technically curious readers.

STACKED: Sandboxes, Inference, & Observability

Free, apply · September 30, 2026, 6–8:30 p.m. PDT · San Francisco

San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.

E2B, Fireworks AI and Braintrust discuss infrastructure for production agents. The organizer lists free admission, subject to host approval.

Thursday, October 1

LLMday San Francisco 2026 Q4

Ticketed · October 1, 2026, starts 9 a.m. PDT; check agenda for closing time · San Francisco

Harness headquarters, 55 Stockton Street, San Francisco.

LLMday brings practitioners together to discuss applied language models. Tickets vary by attendee category; check eligibility and current pricing before registering.

Friday, October 2

Assembling 2026 | AI Summit

Ticketed · October 2, 2026, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. PDT · San Francisco

TERRA Gallery, San Francisco; confirm arrival details through registration.

GenAI Assembling convenes AI founders, builders and investors. The organizer offers multiple ticket categories; some require approval. Check current price and eligibility.

Saturday, October 3

The AI Commerce Gallery — Hackathon

Ticketed, apply · October 3, 2026, 9 a.m.–9 p.m. PDT · San Francisco

Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco; confirm arrival details through registration.

AI Valley and Zoo Work host commerce-agent building and demonstrations. The organizer lists paid ticket options; standard participation requires approval.

Prices, capacity and access are as each organizer lists them; check the event page before you go. Listings were checked against the organizer pages on 2026-09-27. The full edition, with the week at a glance, is in the newsletter archive.

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